I did it!!!! LO's asleep in pnp w/o CIO!!!!

Yay me!!! Some of you may remember a post of mine from a few days ago where a dr gave me some stupid advice of letting LO CIO for like an eternity even though I am anti-CIO. Well, I decide that we woul start with baby steps so I got the pack n play all nice and comfy. I even layed my beloved snuggly blanket I have been cuddling with every night since I was 14 in there lol. There was some protest at first. I nursed her until she was almost asleep and then put her in the pnp. It might have been 2 minutes before dd worked herself up so much that she threw up. She's a bit dramatic sometimes. I rocked her, nursed her some more and put her back in. She cried a little but I started rubbing her leg and belly and began to sing to her. She relaxed and after about 10 minutes of that she was out! Eeeekkkk!!! I'm so excited! Hopefully we can keep this up but for now I am going to enjoy my victory and sprawl out in my baby free bed! She should sleep much better without me tossing and turning all night too!

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I really hope that this is the start of something wonderful for you. :) We found that kicking her out of our room was the final nail in the "never sleeping" coffin. We were waking her up as often as she was waking us up. She went to sleep last night at about 7:30 or 8, and slept until 6:30. That was my girl! :D

Congrats! I really need to start trying something, lo has been getting up like 5-8 times a night. Literally, like every 40 mins until I go to bed with her. I go back and forth about trying CIO, but I can never bring myself to do it. Do you normally bedshare and nurse to sleep? I really need to try something, maybe I will try this tonight. Keep us updated on how she does throughout the night.

sunshine - do you guys co-sleep or bedshare? I was all over keeping Lil in our room until we just got fed up with the 4-6 times a night garbage. The first night in her own room, she slept for about 6 hours, we brought her in to bed with us around 3:30. The next night was worse - she was in bed with us by 1:30. The third night was the best. She was out till 5:30. I don't mind bringing her in with us at that point. :) She's been consistently pulling 7:30 or 8 - 5:30-7 for about a week and a half. It's crazy how much freedom you didn't know you were missing till your kiddo sleeps through the night! :)

Congrats!! Please be sure to keep us updated! I co-sleep but she wakes up nonstop and I think it would be best for both of us if she didn't (especially since she uses me as a human pacifier all night now!) I'm DEF anti-COI too and am thrilled to hear some success stories! :)

We normally cosleep and I was def a human pacifier! She didn't do too bad last night considering she normally wakes up every two hours or more when she's in bed with me. She slept from 8:30-12, I put her back down and she woke back up at 12:45. Getting her to sleep this time was more challenging but she was down again by 1:30 or something and she slept till about 3:30 and then I brought her in bed with me. hopefully she will do a little better tonight :)

Like you said, baby steps :) Sounds like you're doing great already! My question is how you get her in the pack n play. Whenever I try putting her down it's like she feels the "drop"...I have a co-sleeper next to my bed that I've only successfully gotten her in a few times w/o her waking up and that's much higher up- I can almost keep her to my chest until the very last second when I have her in it and she still wakes. She's only sucessfully napped in the pnp a few times and it was bc a few very lucky days she fell asleep on her own...she's much too smart for that now ;)

LO stoped letting put her down asleep a long time ago. She would always wake up when she touched the matress and then scream at me for putting her down lol. I got her really sleepy by rocking, nursing and singing and then put in the pnp when she was just about to fall asleep. then I just reassured her that everything was ok my rubbing her legs and singing some more. I am so surprised that it actually worked bc LO is super stubborn and has never touched a pnp or crib without screaming bloody murder about it!

Thats good to hear hel92ftm! I co-sleep and for the past few weeks LO has been waking up every 2 hours or so. And yes im a human pacifier too. I plan to mobe her crib into her room coming weekend. Hopefully that works!

She just went down for the nap after fussing and screaming for about an hour. I had to rock and sing to her the entire hour! ::sigh::

Yay independent sleepers lol!
Good job OP keep at it. Do you have a mattress in your pnp?

@Middy, good question, I was obsessed with how I could put lo down asleep, then I remembered the point is supposed to be for them to fall asleep lol!
How are you holding your lo when you are lowering her?